Maryland could get federal relief funds for Key Bridge in a matter of days

Authorities are turning their focus to salvage operations to remove wreckage from the Patapsco River after Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed. in a matter of days to pay for the start of the Francis Scott Key Bridge recovery and rebuilding mission, but longer-term funding from Congress could take months to arrive, Sen. Chris Van Hollen told The Washington Post on Thursday.

“When it comes to using those funds for the design and ultimately the construction of new bridge, there’s a cost share where the federal government picks up the lion’s share of the costs, but not all of it,” Van Hollen said. “And that’s where Senator Cardin and I plan to introduce legislation to ensure that the federal government is able to pick up the full costs going forward.

“The emergency relief fund will need to be plussed up, not just for this Baltimore bridge replacement, but for other projects that it supports,” Van Hollen said. “That will be something that we will be working closely with the White House to accomplish.” Lawmakers will need a request from the Biden administration and Maryland officials with a firm dollar figure to begin crafting an emergency spending, or appropriations, package. Congress just passed full-year funding for the federal government before the bridge disaster, so new money would need a separate spending bill.

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